Google released a Visual Studio extension for creating gaming apps for Android, targeting C++ developers. The Android Game Development Extension (AGDE) is part of the new Android Game Development Kit ...

Google's decision to use Rust for new code in Android in order to reduce memory-related flaws appears to be paying off. Memory safety vulnerabilities in Android have been more than halved – a ...

The annual number of memory safety vulnerabilities in Android dropped from 223 in 2019 to 85 in 2022 as Google gradually transitioned towards memory-safe languages. The tech giant made the ...

Engineers at Facebook parent Meta have detailed their multi-year effort to convert the codebases for its numerous Android apps from the Java programming language over to Kotlin. That's a large task ...

Apple's Swift programming language, first released in 2014 for Apple's own platforms, is now pushing to add official support for Android. Historically, Swift has been closely tied to Apple's ecosystem ...

I didn’t see this coming, but Apple’s Swift programming language is now being officially extended to support Android app development. This is done via an establishment of a dedicated Android Working ...